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Re:More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs by pjmlp on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:36AM (#40797029)
That wasn't the case of Modula-2, Ada or Object Pascal.

Their problems was a mix of not being hieroglyph languages (too much text to type!), being much strongly typed (straitjacket programming with a famous rant post, wrongly), commercial offerings being expensive (more so against free in the box alternative), and not comming with an OS to make their use unavoidable.

Note that for all the hype, Zig is basically Modula-2 features with C syntax, to certain extent.

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Re:More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs by steveklabnik on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:30PM (#40801747)
> not comming with an OS to make their use unavoidable.

Early MacOS did use Pascal, though IIRC not Object Pascal.

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Re:More Memory Safety for Let's Encrypt: Deploying ntpd-rs by another2another on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:21AM (#40820866)
You can still find documentation for Macos toolkit with Pascal bindings.

This is a bit of a nostalgia trip for me as I owned a copy of this book way back in the 90's

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

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